and Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Incider, Matthew Collier and joining me on the

show Minnesota Vikings legend.

He has been a long time TV analyst and now also

doing work for Vikings entertainment on post game shows former running back

Robert Smith what is up Robert how are you I'm good man are you? I'm doing well. You picked a heck of a year to do post game shows, man.

Oh, boy, it's been a crazy ride. It's been a crazy ride. You know, and you know, the interesting thing is like

obviously you want to be neutral and you know to try and try and look at everything

analytically and I do

do but it's just tough it's tough to sit in there and watch the games and they go through everything that the fans are going through quite frankly this year this is the I mean I've watched the Vikings

in years past but never this closely game in and game out and so you know all of the

ups and downs and the fretful moments late in games, like it's been draining.

Yeah, I know. I mean, even from a reporter perspective, usually there's a few games a year where, I mean know by the second half the things over we're going back for a few more donuts or whatever right I mean like normally that's the case but this is the most anxiety as us up in the press box I think have felt toward the end of these games the number of rewrites that we've had like oh you know right game is over it's Oh, there's one more drive and here we go.

But I mean, you played in enough of these close games.

I mean, what is it like down on the field, the sideline, when you know, the game is coming down to it and after a week after week you got to think that these guys are exhausted of it.

Yeah and you know quite frankly like I don't really remember you know too many times like to me it was never never

or very rarely that I felt relaxed on the sideline because even if that game

was over it was all that was always the next one, you know what I mean?

So, you know, it was never that light.

Although, you know, there are some games, especially in 98 where we scored so many points

where we were able to relax a little bit on the sideline.

But yeah, it was usually always pretty tense,

just thinking about the work that still had to be done.

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